Friday, February 18, 2011

50 Video Game Characters: 44

"So whaddaya say? A little game of drop the anchor? You and me? Stem to stern? Tug to tanker?



44. Larry Laffer (Leisure Suit Larry)

Short, balding, comically ugly and bedecked in an outfit that was laughably lame even when the first game came out, Larry spends his semi-bawdy series looking for love. A very specific kind of love. The kind with a lot of friction. Maybe some dry humping, too.

Throughout six games, Larry finagles his way through city streets, cruise ships and tropical islands to get his bone on, risking life and limb just to get his dick wet.

Part of what makes Larry great is that he is unabashedly just horny. Stocked with a dictionary's worth of cheesy pick-up lines, Larry embraces his chauvinism in an absurd satire of what it's like to be a pathetic single man.

The thing about Larry Laffer is it's amazing he can get laid at all.

Best moment: In the myriad of ways Larry can die(it is a Sierra game, after all), the best one is when, in the first game, you can die of a sexually transmitted disease if you bone a hooker without a condom on.

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